<br>Register of Deeds has birth and death&nbsp;records from 1913<br>marriage records from 1870 and land records from 1784<br>Clerk Superior Court has divorce records from 1913 &amp; probate records from 1782 <ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America'', 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Richmond County, North Carolina. Page 512 {{WorldCat|50140092|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 2002}}.</ref>

== History ==

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'''1779'''--Richmond County was created from [[Anson County, North Carolina|Anson]] County.&nbsp; '''County seat:''' Rockingham <ref name="Handybook">''The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America'',10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).</ref>

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'''1779'''--Richmond County was created from [[Anson County, North Carolina|Anson]] County.<br>'''County seat:''' Rockingham <ref name="Handybook">''The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America'',10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).</ref>

*'''Hitchcock.''' Constituted 1772.<ref>George Washington Paschal, ''History of North Carolina Baptists,'' 2 vols. (1930; reprint, Gallatin, Tenn.: Church History Research and Archives, 1990), 1:225. {{FHL|561274|item|disp=FHL Book 975.6 K2p 1990}}.</ref> Edwards published a membership list dated 1772 in [http://repository.clemson.edu/u?/jbt,111 ''Materials Towards a History of the Baptists...''] (1772), 128. Originally located in [[Anson County, North Carolina|Anson County]].